Dual monitors in DOS.

[LeeTJ]

Can you run dual monitors simulateously in DOS?? which card??

 

[IanthePez]

wow....what a wierd question ,heh.

I would love to hear the responses to this....I would have never thought of trying this.

 

[Sid59]

why?

 

[LeeTJ]

Originally posted by: Sid59
why?

client insists on having his dos machine use dual monitors. he does all of his accounting in DOS lotus still. he wants to be able to display his screen (his review sessions) w/ coworkers.

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: LeeTJ

Originally posted by: Sid59
why?

client insists on having his dos machine use dual monitors. he does all of his accounting in DOS lotus still. he wants to be able to display his screen (his review sessions) w/ coworkers.

Oh, so you mean same image on both monitors?

if you have a video card with dual outputs it should default to mirroring the primary display...

 

[LeeTJ]

Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0

Originally posted by: LeeTJ

Originally posted by: Sid59
why?

client insists on having his dos machine use dual monitors. he does all of his accounting in DOS lotus still. he wants to be able to display his screen (his review sessions) w/ coworkers.

Oh, so you mean same image on both monitors?

if you have a video card with dual outputs it should default to mirroring the primary display...

ya, the simplest one. same image both monitors.

so what's a good inexpensive card i can use. all analog outputs.

 

[dkozloski]

Some monitors allow you to connect to one card in series with multiple monitors like in a classroom situation. I saw an Eizo monitor you could do this with and it had a 75ohm load you could switch in and out to terminate the last monitor in the string.

 

[zzzz]

some matrox cards should do it.

 

[Eug]

Matrox G450, or else just get a VGA splitter.

 

[Confused]

I've seen a Radeon 7000 dual head card show the same thing on both displays when POSTing and while loading DOS. Not too bad display (pretty crisp), and cheap, too



Confused

 

[AmdInside]

All of NVIDIA cards show the same video on both heads in DOS mode.

 

[SUOrangeman]

My GF2MX does NOT show both images in DOS. It never has (been using it since the days of 1x.xx drivers).

However, the Radeon VE in my PC at work shows both screens with the same image (until WinXP or Win98 completely boots).

-SUO

 

[FishTankX]

You don't need a dual display card, just a monitor splitter. I'm sure they're all over the net. The cheap ones only work in 640X480, though.

Monitor splitter 50$. Same effect as dual monitor + Cloning. Works up to 1990X1440.